Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.
Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
Immigrants have always come into the country with low levels of education. Whether it's the Irish or Italian or Polish, here is the land of opportunity. It's where people come in at the bottom and build themselves up. To try to bring in people who have already made it is un-American.
There is no 'European people' united by common mores.
Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.